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[Hannibal]

We got the president Americans wanted. This time, he's an R. Next time, they'll be a D and roles of the happy and despondent will just flip...

But the butthurt is just so much more pitiful and entertaining in its current form.

[Dr. Strangelove]

How does that view mesh with this:

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/314991-trump-team-prepares-dramatic-cuts

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He may reduce the payrolls of certain agencies (while increasing the size of other one's) but he's already made it VERY clear that he envisions the govt being involved in the economy as much if not more than any President we've ever had. He's PERSONALLY issued threats and attempted to blackmail private corporations into doing what he wants.

Publicly threatening GM or Ford or Carrier or Boeing with punitive taxes or cancelled contracts if they don't do what's best for 'the nation' rather than their stockholders isn't 'smaller government'.

[hack]

oh.. Trump isn't going to do that either.. We've elected plenty of officials who have been eroding that foundation for years.

Come on now -- we've already seen a yuuge step up in blatant disregard of the law.

[entropy]

But the butthurt is just so much more pitiful and entertaining in its current form.

wow.. talk about lack of perpsective

[froot loops]

You can throw out trial balloons all you want, but it doesn't mean you get your wishlist.

He got 46 percent of the vote and the GOP doesn't have overwhelming margins in the congress, there will be another election.

[Dr. Strangelove]

I'll throw this out too...these moron anarchists in DC (who will be much overhyped) are handing Trump an early gift.

[whodean]

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He may reduce the payrolls of certain agencies (while increasing the size of other one's) but he's already made it VERY clear that he envisions the govt being involved in the economy as much if not more than

Overall, the blueprint being used by Trump?s team would reduce federal spending by $10.5 trillion over 10 years.

That is the very definition of smaller government

[SeattleLionsFan]

wow.. talk about lack of perpsective

Are you talking about the woman who is in so much pain she is considering having an abortion, or the assholes laughing at her pain?

[froot loops]

Yep, they tried a similar bills in the past and it failed to even get passage as a show vote for Obama to veto. They tried the same thing under W, failed.

Everyone always says smaller government. Prove it.

On top of that, shrinking the government will make it hard to get 4 percent growth that Trump promised. That's part of the problem with the recovery since 2009 a lot of state and local governments shed jobs. That reflects in the GDP.

[whodean]

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Agreed, Trump will have to fight tooth and nail with the entrenched powers of both political parties if this is going to become reality.

The post was actually in response to Strangelove stating that small government conservatives would hate Trump

[Whitley]

Overall, the blueprint being used by Trump?s team would reduce federal spending by $10.5 trillion over 10 years.

That is the very definition of smaller government

That number is a junk number. That would be getting rid of nearly all discretionary funding (that includes the military). And since Trump wants to build up the military that is not happening.

[whodean]

That number is a junk number. That would be getting rid of nearly all discretionary funding (that includes the military). And since Trump wants to build up the military that is not happening.

It's over 10 years.

[Whitley]

It's over 10 years.

Right. There is about 1.1 trillion a year that is discretionary funding (including the military). So over 10 years that is 11 trillion. As I said it is a junk number.

[SeattleLionsFan]

Discretionary spending is just over 1T a year. Of that 600B is military spending.

[Wild Hoss]

Publicly threatening GM or Ford or Carrier or Boeing with punitive taxes or cancelled contracts if they don't do what's best for 'the nation' rather than their stockholders isn't 'smaller government'.

Setting aside the philosophical categorizations....where is the outrage from our Republican free-market friends at this blatant interference in the Almighty Market, with the president using the power of the government to reward and punish individual actors?

One would think that such monarchist-type activities would draw ire at least equal to a protest by college kids. No?